Historic trolley at Boylston stop covered in graffiti again

Transit Police say they are conducting "an active investigation" to find whoever sprayed graffiti on one of the two historic trolleys stored at Boylston on the Green Line.

In the Friends of the Mattapan High Speed Line Facebook group, one person posted photos of the graffiti on car 3295, the more rounded PCC car that is a cousin to the cars still in use on the Mattapan Line. She reports she saw the tagging on her way home tonight.

After becoming a wanted man in both Cheyenne, WY and the San Francisco area for doing something like that again, he returned to the Boston area last year and was arrested after being captured on video scribbling on doors at the Forest Hills T stop.

The graffiti on the trolley today looks different from his typical style.

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All they have to do is watch the videos from the cameras in the station to solve this one. How the vandals entered the area through locked gates is another question for the sleuths to solve. While they are at it the whole red line from North Quincy to the tunnel before Andrew is covered with full length murals by vandals who had to have ladders and probably a police detail and a flag person.

Didn't know Boylston station didn't have any cameras. You would think that with all the shows downtown and the number of tourists that use the station and the historic trolleys the T would have its police force patrol the station and walk the platform once an hour.

Which law has higher precidence? The Historic Landmark law or the ADA? Because the ADA states that all "grandfather clauses" expire in 2020 (or so I've heard, maybe there are other exemptions I'm not aware of). But the Historic Landmark law preserves such places. So the two laws will be contradicting each other at the end of 2020. Will Boylston be able to stay open without changes, or will they have to at least install elevators (not necessarily escalators or cameras)? Or will they simply close it?

As for the vandalism, wihch has recently been cleaned, let's hope they get the guy.

MBTA should invest in some better fencing. Few years back one of the sections on that side rusted to the point it fell over. Vandals shouldn't be able to get over to those museum trolleys. Paint is bad enough. What happens if some moron does more damage with tools or worse?

When they catch the creep that did this they should have to spend months of community service cleaning stations.

Those cars are akin to museum exhibits. Why do we attract this sort of asshole? We've seen the BPL tagged, these train cars, and other monuments hit before. And just tagging? Not even something artistic? What the hell? So lame.

The whole art form is just rich white kids from the suburbs or privileged backgrounds who post their pictures on Instagram now for likes. Much like anything else real in this world it is now a shadow of itself and total joke.